Panche

The Panche, also called the Tolima, were a warlike people of the western slopes of the Eastern Andes, between the Muisca plateau and the Magdalena River in present-day Colombia. At the conquest they numbered about 30,000, in a loose confederation of independent chiefdoms.

They raided the Muisca to the east with clubs and poisoned arrows. In 1538 they were routed at Tocarema by the Spaniards of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, who fought alongside Muisca rivals under Sagipa. Resistance went on until Hernán Venegas Carrillo subdued the chiefdoms, and disease and colonial settlement then greatly reduced the survivors.